Place

Date and time

Wednesday, October 17
and Thursday, October 18:

9.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.

Friday, October 19:

9.00 a.m. – 5.30 p.m.

Who is admitted

Open to buyers only holders of pre-registered tickets or of original visitor registration forms; online ticketing will be available from September 2018.
Visitors, the press and speakersmight pre-register on-lineand print their ticket,(to be presented to the entrances).

H2O Industry

The show offering space to all suppliers and producers of technologies, treatment systems, equipment, and services dedicated to the management of water in industry.

The water sector continues to be of great interest to the industrial world and, above all, of vital environmental importance. Of the 33.7 billion cubic meters of fresh water drawn from the environment, the production sector is the largest user, according to a report prepared by Politecnico di Milano: «Water Management Report», January 2018. «Agriculture is the sector that draws the most water, around 50.45%, but makes marginal use of the water network and has the lowest energy consumption. The industrial sector draws 22.85% and is based primarily on dedicated drawing systems»*

Attention is growing on many sectors, so technologies, innovation, investments, management systems, and best practices are issues that must be treated from an integrated standpoint. This is an opportunity for dialogue and discussion on transverse and specific topics such as the industrial, agricultural, and chemical sectors, along with the integrated water cycle of the civil sector.

From water as a common asset to industrial vision; values complementary, not contradictory

Key elements of presentation and venues for discussion will be the thematic focuses on

Innovation

Digitalization

Internationalization

H2O Industry – best practices

Seminars, presentations and business opportunities also in areas organized by companies and institutions, particularly:

Agro industry and livestock farming are two of the sectors most interested in looking for the best water treatment and recovery technologies at H2O Industry.

These highly water-intensive industries are obliged to undertake expensive purification treatments of their wastewater streams given that they process materials (e.g. meat, excreta, foodstuffs) that produce by-products and waste with high concentrations of nutrients. The business areas concerned include meat processing facilities (slaughterhouses, sausage factories, etc.), dairies, oil production facilities, fruit and vegetable processing plants, distilleries and livestock farms (pigs, cattle, poultry).

H2O INDUSTRY will offer industry players a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, obtain information and attend educational events and will feature a programme of specialist conferences and seminars focusing on technical and scientific issues. These will include an important initiative aimed at the agro-industry organised in collaboration with ENEA and the Order of Chemists.

ENEA will discuss principles of the circular economy applied to the manufacturing and agricultural sectors with a special focus on rationalisation of material and water flows. These include savings-oriented interventions, reuse and above all recovery of specific elements (e.g. nutrients such as N and P) contained in the production process streams with a view to recycling them inside or outside the company and adopting closed operating cycles aimed at achieving net savings of raw materials.

The Order of Chemists will provide an up-to-date overview of the potential for industrial wastewater treatment, focusing on the technologies and methods used by public and private entities for the collection, treatment, recovery and recording of these discharges. For this purpose, it will discuss management experiences on the part of both public and private entities and will analyse the most topical and significant applications presented by universities, SSICA, ARPAE, CRPA and private laboratories.

The chemicals industry is involved in a highly diverse range of production activities, all of which need to control costs due to the fiercely competitive international environment in which they operate.

It is a highly water-intensive industry with a range of needs including the production of high-quality pure water, optimised management of the entire water cycle, care for the environment, a greater commitment to reducing the volumes of process wastewater requiring treatment and compliance with environmental regulations.

H2O INDUSTRY will offer industry players a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, obtain information and attend educational events and will feature a programme of specialist conferences and seminars focusing on technical and scientific issues.

These will include an event organised in collaboration with Federchimica aimed at all public and private players interested in any aspect of wastewater treatment. Starting out from the current state of legislation, it will provide an updated overview of the potential for chemical water treatment, focusing in particular on the chemical technologies adopted in the sector. It will also discuss public-private partnership experiences and business success stories.

Another event organised in partnership with Syndial (an international company specialising in the field of environmental remediation with activities spanning procurement, engineering and implementation of wastewater projects and logistics) will discuss issues of industrial wastewater management, focusing in particular on quality assurance of analytical laboratory data in contaminated site remediation and formation water treatment. Discussions will cover both the present situation and future developments. One important aspect of the crude oil extraction process is management of the process water, in other words the formation water associated with oil extracted from the deposits and separated in surface-level industrial plants.

At the event, the Order of Chemists will present industrial wastewater management experiences in cooperation with universities, SSICA, ARPAE, CRPA and private laboratories.

Agriculture has always been the biggest water consuming sector, accounting for almost 60% of all water used in Italy. The fact that it is such a highly water-intensive sector makes it necessary to reuse treated wastewater so as to reduce water consumption, to implement regional policies to promote water savings and efficiency, to adopt a progressive tariff structure according to real levels of consumption, and to encourage land development consortia to perform water management based on a demand-based rather than rota system.

In this context, water will become an increasingly important resource and its use for irrigation will have to meet the needs of the agricultural sector through the use of increasingly water-efficient practices while at the same time producing benefits for the environment. Unfortunately, the availability of water resources will decline significantly in the future due to climate change, pollution, competition with other uses and the seemingly unstoppable process of land loss. The issue of water availability becomes even more significant considering that more than 83% of the value of Italian agricultural production derives from irrigated land.

H2O INDUSTRY will offer industry players a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, obtain information and attend educational events and will feature a programme of specialist conferences and seminars focusing on technical and scientific issues. In particular, a programme of seminars on agriculture organised by the agriculture department of the University of Bologna and ANBI will address these issues in the company of leading managers and experts in the technical-scientific sector.